The work includes tearing down the old theater and building a new 650-seat theater as well as overhauling the accompanying lobby, multipurpose room, restrooms, dressing rooms and scene shop, district spokesman Jeff Puma said.

The school’s main entrance also will be updated to enhance its security, he said.

The project is expected to be completed in the summer of 2015 and is being funded in part through a $1.5 million donation from the Cary-Grove Fine Arts Foundation.

Also on District 155’s to-do list is the 18-year-old roof at Prairie Ridge High School.

Half of the roof will be replaced this summer with the other half on the docket for next summer, Puma said. The project is estimated to cost $1.2 million.

Seven chemistry labs also will be renovated for $2.28 million. They include one at Prairie Ridge and two at the other three high schools.

District 15 has $1.3 million worth of work lined up for the summer at three of its eight schools: new boilers at Hilltop Elementary School and partial roof replacements at Edgebrook Elementary School and Parkland Middle School, said Mark Bertolozzi, the district’s chief financial officer.

McHenry’s other district doesn’t have much on its agenda, said Kevin Weisenberger, District 156’s facilities manager.